Compact rounded evergreen shrubs with bristly branchlets and petioles. The flowers (early to mid-spring) are white flushed pink, pink, or rose, with crimson spots. The glossy dark green leaves have a distinctive thick indumentum on the underside, yellow-brown to cinnamon in color. A highly prized, slow growing species with superb foliage requiring excellent drainage and some protection from the sun. Known only from one Kingdon Ward collection in N Burma where it was found on steep slopes of scree and among boulders at 11,000 ft.
1974/098UBCBG(-5\R2\2).Pink flowered form (early spring) of this low and compact growing species.Fantastic dark and glossy green, narrow leaves with a thick yellow-brown indumentum on the undersides.
1974/099Hilliers (-5\R2\2). Dwarf and compact rounded shrubs with striking foliage.The narrow leaves are glossy above with a thick yellow-brown indumentum beneath. White flushed pink flowers in early spring.
1975/056KW#7184:Nymans(-5\R2\2).White flushed rose flowers with a magenta blotch on this clone grown from the original collection of seed by Frank Kingdon Ward.
